The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy lead BAFTA nominees

17 January, 2012 | By Wendy Mitchell

The Artist leads BAFTA nominations with 12; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has 11, followed by Hugo with 9, My Week With Marilyn with six.

The Help and War Horse receieve five each; Drive, The Iron Lady, and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 have four each; The Descendants, Moneyball, Senna, and We Need To Talk About Kevinall have three; and Shame, The Ides of March, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Bridesmaids, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn each receive two.

Entertainment leads as distributor with most nominations at 27 (it has The Artist, Hugo and My Week With Marilyn); StudioCanal garners 16, Disney has 10, Universal has 7, Sony has 6, and following with 5 each are: Artificial Eye, Icon, Warner Bros. and Pathe/Fox.

The Best Film nominees are The Artist, The Descendants, Drive, The Help and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Tinker Tailor also gets a nod for Outstanding British Film, alongside My Week With Marilyn, Senna, Shame and We Need To Talk About Kevin.

For Best Director, Tinker Tailor’s Tomas Alfredson and The Artist’s Michel Hazanavicius will be up against Nicolas Winding Refn for Drive, Martin Scorsese for Hugo, and Lynne Ramsay for We Need To Talk About Kevin.

For the first year, BAFTA has a documentary category. Those nominees are George Harrison: Living In The Material World, Project Nim and Senna.

In the Outstanding British debut, the nominees are director Joe Cornish for Attack The Block; writer/director Will Sharpe, director Tom Kingsley and producer Sarah Brocklehurst for Black Pond; director Ralph Fiennes for Coriolanus; writer/director Richard Ayoade for Submarine; and director Paddy Considine and producer Diarmid Scrimshaw for Tyrannosaur. Of those, the lesser-known is the well-reviewed black comedy Black Pond, which stars Chris Langham as a patriarch who is drawn into the tabloid press when a man dies at his family dinner table.

After the first round of voting, My Week With Marilyn had mentions in 16 categories, now cut down to six nominations. The Iron Lady had 14 mentions on the longlist and now has four nominations. Midnight In Paris, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and War Horse had 13 mentions each on the longlist, now Midnight In Paris has one nomination (original screenplay), Dragon Tattoo has only two nominations in technical categories (music and cinematography); and War Horse has five nominations also all in technical categories (original music, cinematography, production design, sound and special visual effects).

Among the surprises were that Olivia Colman didn’t receive a Best Actress nomination for Tyrannosaur; Albert Brooks wasn’t nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Drive; and that Carey Mulligan’s Best Supporting Actress nomination was for Drive, not Shame (she had been longlisted in Best Actress for the latter). It is notable that Scorsese is the only American nominated for Best Director.

Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger joined Chairman Tim Corrie to announce the nominations.

The BAFTAs will be held on Feb 12 at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Stephen Fry will host.

Readers' comments
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Someone surely needs to make up their minds as to whether Tintin is animated or a special effect. The fact that it's nominated in both Best Animated Film and Best SFX seems a bit embarrassing!

Love the dominance of The Artist, the recognition of Dragon Tattoo's brilliant score, and the Film & Director nods for Drive.

It's a shame not to see Tyrannosaur up for Best British Film - it's a better film than 4 of the 5 nominated.

I would also have liked to see more range in the inaugural documentary category. This group seems a little star-struck - going for the big names. There were so many great docs this year, Page One, Tabloid, Bobby Fischer Against The World, Fire In Babylon, Nenette, Inside Job, Knuckle, Donor Unknown, Waste Land, Into The Abyss (although don't think that qualified for this year's consideration), etc. Senna will easily win out of those three but there was a lot of scope to be a genuinely interesting category instead of what appears to be the only 3 docs your average person on the street would have seen and voted for. This set feels like those nominating probably didn't watch much of what was out there.

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